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What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
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The College Classroom Meeting 4:
Fixed and Growth Mindset &
Assessment that Supports Learning
January 26 & 28, 2016
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Peter Newbury
Center for Engaged Teaching, UC San Diego
collegeclassroom.ucsd.edu
Vocabulary Check: Mindsets [1]
Entity, Helpless,
Performance-oriented,
Fixed
Mastery-oriented,
Incremental, Malleable,
Growth
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The helpless [children]
believe that intelligence is a
fixed trait: you have only a
certain amount, and that’s
that.
The mastery-oriented
children think intelligence
is malleable and can be
developed through
education and hard work.
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Diagnosing Fixed/Growth Mindset
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Each card has a fixed mindset behavior on one side and a
contrasting growth mindset behavior on the other side.
With the others at your table:
1. sort the cards to show the fixed mindset
behaviors
2. one by one, flip all the cards over to see the
contrasting growth mindset behaviors
fixed
growth
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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]
Agency “Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make
choices. It is normally contrasted to natural forces, which are causes
involving only unthinking deterministic processes.” Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
In your opinion, which of these is true?
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A) you need a growth mindset to engage in deliberate
practice
B) if you have a growth mindset, then you’ll engage in
deliberate practice
C) both
D) neither
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If you need a growth mindset to engage in deliberate practice to become more expert-like in your discipline…
…what about your students?
What is their mindset towards your class?
Likely a mix of fixed, growth, and no mindset.
How do you help your students become more expert-like?
Feedback and Practice that Enhance
Learning (How Learning Works)
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When Practice Does Not Make Perfect… Students’ writing in public policy course
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The instructors don’t recognize
their own expertize, fail to give
useful practice and feedback.
expert blindness
curse of knowledge
They Just Do Not Listen! Students’ presentations in medical anthropology course
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Learning (How Learning Works)
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are
critical to learning. [3]
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Music by Piulet on flickr CC Excellent Shot by Varsity Life on flickr CC
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Learning (How Learning Works)
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are
critical to learning. [3]
Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis
for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted
feedback that guides students’ future efforts. [p. 127]
Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about
how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they
can understand how to improve their future performance. [p. 141]
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Learning (How Learning Works)
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are
critical to learning. [3]
practice is goal-directed
practice is productive
timely feedback
feedback at an appropriate level
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recall 5
characteristics
of deliberate
practice
Aside: exploring these characteristics
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analogy
Students come to the classroom with preconceptions about how
the world works…Teachers must draw out and work with the
preexisting understandings that their students bring with
them. (How People Learn [1])
contrasting cases
Teachers must teach some subject matter in depth, providing
many examples in which the same concept is at work and
providing a firm foundation of factual knowledge
(How People Learn [1])
Contrasting Cases
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feedback not at
appropriate level
feedback at
appropriate level
unproductive practice productive practice
practice is not goal-directed practice is goal-directed
untimely feedback timely feedback
I feedback not at appropriate level II feedback at appropriate level sp
ort/
hobb
y
spor
t/ho
bby
III feedback not at appropriate level IV feedback at appropriate level
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
example example
example example
Make up an example for each scenario.
Everyone, write all 4 examples on your sheet.
I unproductive practice II productive practice sp
ort/
hobb
y
spor
t/ho
bby
III unproductive practice IV productive practice
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
I practice is not goal-directed II practice is goal-directed sp
ort/
hobb
y
spor
t/ho
bby
III practice is not goal-directed IV practice is goal-directed
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
I untimely feedback II timely feedback sp
ort/
hobb
y
spor
t/ho
bby
III untimely feedback IV timely feedback
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
Tear your sheet into quarters
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I
Arrange yourselves into groups of 4,
one person bringing each color.
Share your examples with
others in your group.
I assessment that does not support learning II assessment that supports learning sp
ort/
hobb
y
spor
t/ho
bby
III assessment that does not support learning IV assessment that supports learning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
teac
hing
and
lear
ning
I II
IV III
I II
III IV
I II
III IV
I II
IV III
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What kind of assessment gives
timely feedback at an
appropriate level to support
goal-directed and
productive practice?
Rubric = Instructional Scaffolding
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supports growth mindset
goal-directed
Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted feedback that guides students’ future efforts.
targeted feedback
Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they can understand how to improve their future performance.
path to improvement: rubric needs to be given before, and built into, assignments (not just a grading scheme at the end.)
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Mindset for your students
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You
must foster
a growth mindset
in your students.
Email from a faculty member in
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"Our discussions on undergraduate education seem to focus mostly on where we want students to be and how to teach to get them there. In my view, this ignores an important dimension, namely the raw intellectual quality of a student and the fact that this varies hugely across our student body. This creates intrinsic limitations.
“Our discussions seem to assume that we can, in principle, teach all students all things, if we have the right methods. In my view, every student has an inherent intellectual range, and the best we can do is push them to the top of this range. This range varies enormously from student to student. Some students will never understand the difference between a _____________ and a ____________ and there isn't anything to do about it.
“If the goal of education is to enable each student to realize their potential, we need to appreciate the vast differences in these potentials."
Mindset for your students
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You must have a
growth mindset about your
students’ ability to learn.
You
must foster
a growth mindset
in your students.
and you
Watch the blog for next week’s
readings and tasks
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Next time
Meeting 5: Active Learning
References
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1. Dweck, C.S. (2007). The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. Scientific American, 18,
6, 36-43.
2. Nigel Holmes http://nigelholmes.com/home.htm
3. Ambrose, S.A., Bridges, M.W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M.C., & Norman,
M.K. (2010). How Learning Works. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass.
4. Wing Sue, D. Microaggressions in Everyday Life. Retrieved June 19, 2015, from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-everyday-
life/201011/microaggressions-more-just-race